News tagged with exercise stress test
Stress test may help predict increased mortality risk in sleep apnea patients
Many studies have shown that men and women who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) - a disorder that causes breathing to halt intermittently during sleep – have a higher mortality rate than those who do not have the ...
Sleep apnea
May 20, 2013 |
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When less is more: New protocol limits use of SPECT MPI
A new stress test protocol that investigates reducing the use of perfusion imaging in low risk patients undergoing SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for possible angina symptoms was found to be diagnostically safe, revealed ...
Cardiology
May 05, 2013 |
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Why doctors still rely on century-old heart test
Most people might assume that technology first developed in 1928 would be obsolete by now. But from air conditioned buildings to sliced bread, many inventions of that era are still essential to our lives today. ...
Cardiology
Jun 14, 2012 |
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Small change makes big difference in compliance rates for follow-up stress test after chest pain
Stress tests are an important tool to help diagnose narrowed arteries in people who come to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain, but who are not confirmed as having a heart attack. Scheduling a follow-up exercise stress ...
Cardiology
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Cardiac rehabilitation improves heart rate recovery, boosts survival
For the first time, researchers have discovered cardiac rehabilitation can train the heart to quickly return to its normal rate after exercise.
Cardiology
Sep 26, 2011 |
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'Smelling' heart failure: Evaluation of an electronic nose
A German team has developed a completely new non-invasive method to identify heart failure. It consists of an "electronic nose" which could make the "smelling" of heart failure possible. The projet was presented at the ESC ...
Cardiology
Aug 29, 2011 |
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